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Feminist Review (1980) 5, 19–31. doi:10.1057/fr.1980.10

The Enigma of Veiled Iranian Women

Azar Tabari has been an activist in the women's movement since the early 1970s, first in the United States, then in Britain and finally in Iran. She was a member of the Co-ordination Committee for the celebrations of International Women's Day (1979) in Iran, was active in organizing the activities that followed International Women's Day over the issue of compulsory veiling, and was a member of the Women's Rights Defence Group, one of the several groups that worked together to organize the march against compulsory veiling and for women's demands on March 12, 1979. She is a member of the HKS (the Iranian Socialist Workers Party).

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